#like even if audry's only crime was *just leaving*

[princess-of-the-corner]

"Canon LB/CN seeing what Audrey's inflience can do to the purest of hearts."

"But- But- But- Chloé wasn't abused! Her mom just left!"

MMMMMM.

[lionheartedlucy-blog]

LUCY WEASLEY

Age: 22

Birthday: Jan. 3, 2005

Face Claim: Adeline Rudolph

Preferred Pronouns: she/her

Parents: Percy and Audrey Weasley

Blood Status: Squib

Sexuality: Bisexual

Personality: Studious, attentive, clever. Stubborn, petty, overprotective.  

Location: 1 bedroom flat in London (in Canary Wharf).

Occupation: Employee at Flourish & Blotts.

Magical Strengths: N/A

Magical Weaknesses: N/A

BIO

Early Years: Lucy Weasley grew up in a house of magical giants. Potters and Weasleys, known to nearly every living wizard and witch of the time. It was only natural to imagine that she would receive her letter when the time came as well. She was always a tomboy-- running around in the dirt, falling out of trees, skinned knees. She had an army of cousins and aunts and uncles who watched out for each other. She and her cousins would stay up late when they should be sleeping, talking about what Hogwarts would be like and what House they would go in and if they would join the Quidditch team or become Head Boy or Girl.

Lucy watched her cousins leave for Hogwarts, one by one. Anxiously waiting her turn. But it never came. Lucy was convinced it was lost in the mail. It was talked about to place her into a muggle boarding school - just until her letter came in. But her parents waited. They home-schooled her. Giving her the magical foundation that she would need, but without the magical ability. But by the time she was thirteen, her parents knew. She wasn’t a late-bloomer. It just wasn’t meant to be. And that devastated Lucy. She cursed the world. She isolated herself away from her family, as much as they tried to reach out. But Lucy refused to let them in. She was almost grateful that she was sent to a boarding school (Burgess Hill Girls) and did not have to deal with piteous glances or worried tones from her family and friends.  

School Years: While Lucy was in school, she began to accept her status. Her realization of her value and worth, despite having no magical ability, caused her to shine. Herbology became a subject that was a passion to her. However, Lucy knew she wouldn’t stop at just muggle herbology. She started swiping her sister’s and cousin’s books. Taking in everything that she could. Pleading her way into being taken to sites with magical plants. And she learns. She learns about every nightshade, how to pot and re-pot mandrakes. She can differentiate every non-poisonous from poisonous mushroom with a single look.

But Lucy was no fool. She knew how many of those in the magical community viewed squibs. She saw the side-eyes. Of course it became known to the world that the daughter of Percy Weasley was a squib. She faced backlash. She faced bullying. She received howlers from strangers, was yelled at in the street for being ‘defective.’

And this fueled her need to prove them wrong. To aggressively shove into their faces that she had every right to be a part of the magical community as they did. To throw it back into their faces that ‘different’ didn’t mean ‘broken.’ As a teenager, she took part in squib rights movements. Marches. Protests. Loudly and vocally and proudly. She knew she was going to get a job as a herbalist in the wizarding world. She knew she could do it, without having a magical ability. And she wasn’t going to let anyone get in her way.  

Present Day:  Lucy stopped going to Burgess when she was eighteen. She began going to Lincoln College to study herbal medicine. Even if she couldn’t get a job in the wizarding world right away, she would at least prepare for one in the muggle world so she could pay her bills. She is currently two years in her five year degree plan.

While Lucy goes to school, she is an employee at Flourish and Blotts. When it is attacked at the grand reopening, she gets a sick feeling in the pit of her stomach that her working there contributed to the attack. But she continued to work there, cautiously awaiting any sign of danger. Of a threat. Lucy learned self-defense, finding new ways to defend herself against a magic she didn’t possess.

Lucy found herself fiercely protective of the ones who the magical world tries to push aside. The squibs, the muggle-borns. She has always been protective of her family. Sometimes a little too protective. But Lucy doesn’t consider that something to be ashamed of.

When the epidemic struck, Lucy recognized the disease and shouted from the rooftops about ways to cure it. Of course, barely anyone listened to her. Her youth and blood status prevented anyone from taking her seriously. Lucy at least was able to explain it to her family. She was amazed at how little the magical world knew about common muggle things and she started to wonder if she should teach a muggle studies course instead. But no -- she was already mostly into her degree and didn’t intend on changing it.

Maybe something she could do on the side. Because Lucy is realizing even still that she doesn’t need to be magical to be powerful. Power shouldn’t be something that is born in your bones, power is something that you make.

CONNECTIONS

Former Burgess classmate: the reason they’re at Burgess instead of a wizarding school is UTP. But perhaps another girl who was a squib. Who was a muggle born and her parents did not allow her to grow up in a wizarding world. Someone who rejected it altogether or after the battle of Hogwarts, someone who’s parents had lost faith in the wizarding community. These two stuck together like glue and still remain close to this day. Personality and fc is utp, but age preference would be 19-21.

Flirtationship: A wizard or witch who has been flirting on the lines of something more with Lucy. Perhaps it is a secret that they have to keep from their family for various reasons. Perhaps they are afraid to enter into a relationship with all the tensions rising lately. Whatever it is, they have not crossed that line into a relationship and it is driving Lucy crazy.

Molly ii: Lucy’s older sister. Her confidante, her protector, her partner in crime. Always together and rarely apart, they have always been incredibly close with one another. The only time Lucy pushed Molly away was when she was first discovered to have no magical ability. Other than that, they are thick as thieves. Fc choice: anyone half-Korean. (Clara Lee, Kiko Mizuhara/Audrie Kiko Daniel) If needed, Lucy can have been born to a different mother.

[hadarlaskey]

Athlete A

On 2 August, 2016, just a few days before the US Women’s Gymnastic team won nine medals at the Rio Olympics, the Indianapolis Star published a story revealing systematic sexual abuse within the industry. Hundreds of athletes over a period of over 20 years had been assaulted and abused while training under USA Gymnastics, the national governing body, and as details emerged, it became clear that it was minimised, dismissed and routinely covered up by the highest authorities in the sport.

Athlete A, the third documentary from Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, who previously directed An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power and Audrie & Daisy, details the investigation by the journalists at the Indianapolis Star who worked tirelessly to uncover the truth, as well as speaking directly to the women who dedicated their lives to gymnastics only to be abused by the very men employed to care for them.

At the centre of the scandal was USA Gymnastics national team doctor Larry Nassar, a widely-respected purported “nice guy” who began working for the team back in 1986, and the governing body’s president Steve Penny, who worked to cover up reports of abuse for decades, dismissing concerns from athletes and parents and going so far as to threaten young women with being removed from the team.

Although Nassar is now serving a lengthy prison sentence and will likely never be released, charges against Penny are still pending, and a long shadow still looms over the sport, which has produced some of the USA’s most celebrated athletes.

Cohen and Shenk’s approach is methodical and linear, detailing the shift in USA gymnastics in the 1970s to emulate the success of the Romanian Olympians, which ushered in harsher training regimes and the practice of grooming young women for the sport from early childhood.

Beyond the sexual abuse that many women endured, it is obvious that physical and mental abuse became part of life within the industry, and this contributed to young women being either too afraid to speak out, or not realising they had been abused until much later.

It’s no surprise that the documentary makes for harrowing and enraging viewing, as numerous incredibly brave women speak candidly about the ways in which they were abuse and discouraged from speaking up. When gymnast Maggie Nichols, aka ‘Athlete A’, reported her experiences with Nassar to USA Gymnastics, Penny and his associates worked hard to cover it up, protecting their business above the young women it exploited.

With a focus on the procedural elements of the investigation and the victims themselves, Athlete A does a decent job at centring the people who matter most in this story, but the fairly strict focus on Nassar and Penny’s crimes doesn’t leave much room for the bigger question: how unique is this story?

It stands to reason that Nassar was not the only man abusing his position within the US gymnastics community, and even a cursory glance at the supporting information reveals that it goes much deeper than two men and a handful of individuals who assisted them.

However, for Maggie Nichols and her gymnastic colleagues, it feels like a step towards justice – and in telling their story, we have to hope that the correct measures are put in place across the industry (not just in America) to protect young women from predators.

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